Rumor: Internal Best Buy memo confirms Wii price cut this Sunday [update]
by Griffin McElroy 
{ Sep 23rd 2009 at 3:00PM } 
We'll keep an ear to the ground this Friday for an announcement from the Big N.
Update: Kotaku is reporting that SCEA has directly referenced the new $199 price point for Wii during a presentation to Best Buy employees in Kansas City, Missouri. Can we please put a fork in this one?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
dark_inchworm (stronger than never, ever before) @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:03PM
If this doesn't come true, I'll eat my hat.
Frostblade10 @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:05PM
If you've got a nacho cowboy hat with cheese in the top, then i'd say you're in for quite a treat!
Jack Tretton @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:18PM
Nacho, nacho hat
I want to eat
A nacho hat
LunarAura @ Sep 23rd 2009 6:21PM
Nacho average bear.
captainprotonx @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:03PM
"The price drop will bring customers..."
Was this memo written by a Jr. Executive?
[ArchiGamer] [Painstakingly Written Before A Live Audience] @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:04PM
I love the fact that its says "please keep this quiet" and I'm right now looking at it by someones doing. lol
bongoes the Black Lantern @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:09PM
But he did keep it quiet! He also kept it visible.
[ArchiGamer] [Painstakingly Written Before A Live Audience] @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:12PM
Ha, I can see the employee that did this defending himself,
"But I didn't talk about it, I only showed a picture!"
[ArchiGamer] [Painstakingly Written Before A Live Audience] @ Sep 23rd 2009 6:51PM
Wait, Sony basically confirmed this?
Payback?
Vidaluko @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:04PM
lol
please keep this quiet!
Yeah, right....
THE WICKER MAN (BWF) (GT: Dalek Prime) @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:04PM
LOL @ "PLEASE KEEP THIS QUIET!"
Barkley610 @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:06PM
What the he'll is a bundle band??
AsherR [Leader of the Pachter Defense Force] [Planeteer | Power of The Hoff] @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:11PM
When they bundle products together and try to make it look like it's a special package when it's all really the same price. :P
And I'm not just trolling. I worked at a Best Buy though we'd displayed a bundle, no one in my store acted like it was a special deal at all and just got the customer what products they ACTUALLY needed. Occasionally like $10 would be knocked off of it at the store's decision. Sometimes it would be convenient if the customer wanted all of that, but normally we'd just ask, "What do you actually want?"
Unless this "bundle band" has changed into something that I haven't seen.
timepilot84 @ Sep 23rd 2009 4:33PM
Apparently, a bundle band is something a super duper douchebag uses to tell a story.
Shadsy @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:07PM
Memo: cc: Blogs That Were Talking About This But Shouldn't Be Like Kotaku, Joystiq, Shacknews, And Other Gaming News Sites
jonese402 @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:08PM
Bundles that...tell stories?!?
God, I hate retail marketing.
Misfit Toy @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:29PM
And what a story to tell...
Wii: Play me! I'm fun! Take me home!
Molly: Mommy, I want to play with it!
Billy: It looks fun!
Jimmy: Can we take it home?
Mommy: Oh my! What a great story this bundle tells!
Vidikron @ Sep 23rd 2009 4:07PM
I don't really say what's so crazy about that, though maybe "themed" bundle would have been better terminology.
Vidikron @ Sep 23rd 2009 4:07PM
*see
ecco6t9 @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:10PM
Which just goes as to proove that is 8 years of collage doesnt reall help you Learn to write.
vidGuy @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:13PM
But it might help you make pretty pictures. Collage is really a fine art, I hear.
[ArchiGamer] [Painstakingly Written Before A Live Audience] @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:14PM
Or in your case, proper grammar.
Collage?
Taylor @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:18PM
Are you in fourth grade?
SoshiKitai @ Sep 23rd 2009 5:35PM
I arr ten yars in univirts, i unspell gud.
AvA (ice~) @ Sep 23rd 2009 6:37PM
I think his bad grammar is on purpose...
TheOverlord#2 @ Sep 23rd 2009 8:08PM
I guess he was the only person to graduate Sarcasm U.
BunnySlapper @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:14PM
It's a little depressing that so few people have loyalty to their employer anymore.
I mean really, breaking policy and potentially getting fired so that you can be the first to post on a blog site? Is that what passes for heorism these days?
WREturns(There was once a dream called Rome) @ Sep 23rd 2009 4:55PM
Yup.
Phylicus @ Sep 23rd 2009 5:04PM
Have you never worked in retail before? I'd use many words to describe it, but loyalty is not one of them.
It's a faceless corporation that couldn't care less about its employees. Fuck 'em.
Zedword @ Sep 23rd 2009 11:45PM
Is there a reason that you're focusing on some sort of B.S. morality here?
Might as well be consistent since we're also talking about a company that needs a few slaps on the hand, as well.
Not sure if you read the posts (up) about the "bundle bands," but Best Buy is known for deliberately lying to their customers in order to make more money this way. I should know. I used to work there.
Cody @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:13PM
Ok can we just stop saying this thing is "rumor" now? We're talking Toys R Us, Target, and now Best Buy.
Sounds legit.
ceejay45k @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:16PM
not a rumor this is a done deal saw it at work.
Whoppy @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:15PM
I love me some tight merchandising.
Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:15PM
"...Price drop....blah bla blah...$50 less..blah blah blah blah...."
What the fuck ever....just get me a Black one
Jack Tretton @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:17PM
What, you got a problem with the white one?
[ArchiGamer] [Painstakingly Written Before A Live Audience] @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:17PM
You do realize that every time you say that, you're only opening the floodgate of bad wii puns an the such?
Anyway, yeah I want one to. The Wii of course.
Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ Sep 23rd 2009 4:16PM
lol...I have a white one....its an eyesore in my livingroom wih my Black TV, Black, PS3, Black, Home theater system, Black cable box, all black everything......and when I get a New TV with 4 HDMI Ports I will have my Black 360 in there....
CaramelZappa @ Sep 23rd 2009 4:48PM
Remember when the Nintendo Revolution was going to launch in a bunch of different colors? If only.
THE WICKER MAN (BWF) (GT: Dalek Prime) @ Sep 23rd 2009 5:23PM
Damn you look like a hard ass bastard in your new avatar Aggie! :P
ChromeAlchemist @ Sep 23rd 2009 5:37PM
Just get a black vinyl skin, that's what I did.
Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ Sep 23rd 2009 8:24PM
I've said it before and I'll say it again...I'm not a kid.....I'm a GROWN ASS MAN...and I will NOT PAINT or STICKER ANYTHING THATS GOING IN MY HOME THEATER SETUP
WiNG [XBL&Steam: WiNGSPANTT] from lifeinagame.com @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:18PM
"The price cut will bring in customers. They will be receptive to solutions"
Marketing translation:
"THE CONSUMER SHEEP WILL EAT THIS UP! PILE ON SHOVELWARE FOR MASSIVE PROFITS."
BunnySlapper @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:20PM
Nintendo has said they have no plans to bring the Black Wii to the US - Japan only.
Mind you that might (should) change, but that's the story now.
McBrick @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:56PM
Nintendo said they would not bring the DSi to the US in 2009 either. That lasted until... April, I think.
Mr Khan @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:19PM
It is my suspicion that they are going to announce something regarding an NSMBWii bundle, just because they haven't announced it yet, alone out of all their games for this holiday, yet a non-confirmed release date just popped up for people who pre-ordered it on Amazon, and i bet the two have something to do with each other.
butaneko @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:32PM
No way I still don't believe this happening. ;-p
Mewchu @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:48PM
OH NO, NOT A WII LEAK!
instantrimshot.com
Vivi Ornitier @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:36PM
I saw the rollback signs on the price tags(but they didn't put in how much the discount is) for Nintendo Wii's at Wal-mart today....We all knew that this was coming!!!
Don Jose @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:43PM
I'm pretty sure a bundle band is what holds the 2 Gamecubes together.
Slaziman @ Sep 23rd 2009 3:46PM
Should be lower, how much do you guys think it costs them to build a Wii?
We have Microsoft and Sony to thank for this by the way, Ninty is afraid people will catch on how little value you are getting for 250$ when they compare it to a 300$ PS3.